http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/live-updates-explosion-near-boston-marathon-finish-line-192213861.html

Another Heinous crime inflicted upon innocent people. Once again, lives are shattered by one sicko. Prayers to the victims, please.

Do you think that is funny? Show some respect please.

I'll join you in that prayer.

Thank you, Slasher.

Thorolf, What the Hell is wrong with you?

Pray for the people who've lost family members in this event.

Trust me, you'ed want a prayer if that happened to you. Either way I hope those people responsible get there justice.

My thoughts are with the family's , but i wont pray either.

How is this halo CE related?

Hold on i know how it can be, anyone have a model of Boston?

in before i'm a heartless person

There were people in the explosion who played halo

Edward Davis

Nobody prays for the thousands killed in by-weekly bombings in the middle east.

I will leave this open for a while if people wish to express their grief or wishes but if this degenerates I will delete the accounts of the offenders without a second thought.

That's not true.

May the loved ones of the lives lost all be blessed.

I'm atheist and I still find myself praying that the people affected can somehow gather up the broken pieces of their former lives and somehow find a way to go on.

This community really is full of heartless idiots. Among the people killed was an 8-year-old who got blown clean in half. A child whose 9th birthday was in just a couple of weeks. Who was simply happily watching the race, unaware of the fate that was to befall him. Or his dad, who lost a leg.

And you guys are discussing whether or not people in the explosion played Halo? Why the hell does that matter?
Edited by clonecam117 on Apr 16, 2013 at 12:29 AM

I don't think people understand the humanity concept of praying. I wish the best outcome for everyone involved in the explosion, and I hope that the fallen lay in peace, knowing that there are people who care about their life being lost. Rest in peace.

i don't think they were all christian this is not halo related yes i feel bad for all the injured and dead but this isn't that big of a deal do you guys in america just care about this cause it was terrorism because there were no sandy hook massacre threads or any of the other shootings

BTW. praying isnt really going to do anything if you really want to help donate some money
Edited by ELVEVERX on Apr 16, 2013 at 02:21 AM

I won't pray because I'm an Atheist but this is terrible.

Really, praying has never done jack, help the families by giving them money.
Edited by Oskarmandude on Apr 16, 2013 at 03:25 AM
Edited by Oskarmandude on Apr 16, 2013 at 03:26 AM

Atheist circlejerk thread inbound

yeah but why this one and not one of the other countless slaughters happening all over the world this is the first post i have ever seen here about such a topic and it seems poinless this is a forum about halo and modding and flamewars theres no need to randomly make threads everytime a bomb goes off seriously if we did that would be 99.99% of the threads

I am not a believer but I have a thought for all its people. Terrorism is one of the most despicable side of humanity.

So horrible, may those who'm fallen rest in peace.

my heart goes out to those who were injured or loved ones who lost friends/family in the Terrorist attack.


Edited by Tape City on Apr 16, 2013 at 08:20 AM

There are right and wrong ways to "do" terrorism, this (if it was a terrorist attack) was the wrong way.

Does it matter how this correlates to Halo CE? Do we really have to justify feeling grief for people who've gotten injured, lost their lives or have to live, knowing someone they loved did? As humans, this should directly correlate to our own lives. When we look and see how fragile humanity is. How an event could rock the entire world in mere seconds. I don't care what religion you are; If you don't feel it's necessary to pray for these people, there's not much I can say to you. Praying isn't just a "religious thing". If your heart aches for those people, you should naturally want to pray for them or, at the least, hope that they overcome such losses. This atonement with our fellow man is what makes us human. Our ability to feel empathy for those who die in these tragic events defines us as human. That's why we base our laws on what is "humane". Because we know how someone would feel if they were robbed, raped, killed, or if someone they loved were. We're quick to demonize our government but we fail to realize that they're also people. As a matter of fact; Without the government, there'd be no legislation on these heinous acts. There has to be some humanity there. The world would be a much better place if we spent more time looking at what we had in common rather than what differentiates us. Yes, I believe in God. Yes, I call myself a Christian, but I wouldn't dare say that the prayers I lift up are any better than the prayers others are lifting up from other religions and belief systems. Don't turn this into an "argument" thread or a "trolling" thread. Just use this thread as an invitation to regress on what has happened in this past day, and pray that justice is brought.

Edited by AllySuzumiya on Apr 16, 2013 at 11:01 AM

too bad you couldnt pray that they didn't get blown up.

Here's my take on this. While I, personally, don't think prayers will do anything physical, they mostly serve to help the victims (whether they were physically or mentally damaged) know that they are not alone and people truly care about them.

I don't get angry when people say that they are praying for boston, because I understand that it's just their way of showing that they care. What really makes me angry is people looking at it as some sort of trend. With the whole #prayforBoston thing on twitter, I saw so many people just throw that tweet in along with the hundreds of others of tweets the sent, only to immediately go on with their lives like nothing even happened- as if they sent that hashtag out for the sole purpose of getting retweets/favorites.

Yesterday was a sad day for humanity. 2 bombs went off in Boston, killing 2 (I think the total is 3 now) and injuring over 100. And at the same time (like, within the hour), 20 car bombs went off simultaneously in Iraq, killing 31 and injuring hundreds more.

I have mixed feelings about what this guy had to say. He is right, violent acts happen all the time. And it is sickening when people twist horrible events to use them as leverage for their own agendas (like banning video games, guns, saying a school got shot up because it was secular). But their was also a lot I had to disagree with.

Imagine someone got shot in the hood. That's bad, someone died and all, but so what? Everyone kind of comes to accept that stuff like that will happen in those areas. Now imagine that you live in an upper-class neighborhood and somebody got shot a block away. That's way more surprising that the former because that kind of violence is not expected in your neighborhood. That's what this scenario is like. Iraq is the hood where people expect bombs to go off. It's still bad, but it is not that out of the ordinary. America, on the other hand, is like the upper-class neighborhood (substitute "America" out for other nations like Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, etc. Most news networks actually do cover violence from other First world countries quite often). Bombings are a very rare occurrence, and when it happens, it is very shocking. Adding to the fact is that there were so many people shooting video when it happened, that news stations had an abundance of footage. Also, I am confused by his logic of being angry at american new stations covering american tragedies more than foreign tragedies. The Baghdad bombings left over 15 times more dead than the Boston bombing did, but it happened halfway across the world where those kinds of things happen all the time and where there are few cameras to cover the incidents.

As humans, we cannot care for everyone equally. We say we can, but that's a lie. Our own personal safety and well-being comes first, followed by those around us. A nation of people functions the same way. We will care about the people in our country more than those of other countries. We can still feel for those affected in other countries, but our main concern will be for our fellow countrymen. We will worry more about tragedies that happen on our own soil because we cannot detach ourselves from them through distance. This doesn't make either bombing less tragic, it just shows why we worry more about one bombing than another.

We hear about the Iraq/Syrian bombings every day. Yes, there are those of us, me included, who send our hearts out to the innocent victims of a pointless war.
But this happened right in the US! It's like the war has come to our soil. It is indeed a very scary thought.
That 8 year old who died? Apparently the last thing he ever did (he was killed instantly) was hug his dad.

I would take news about the Boston attack with a grain of salt. Most of the news is just assumptions right now (just like when the Columbine shooting happened), that will or already have been proven wrong.

I feel like that thing about the little boy was only said to further the drama of the tragedy and to keep people watching the news. Disgusting, really, but it happens quite a lot.

It's things like these that make me sad to think that people in this world would actually do such a thing.

That being said, this is very similar to what happens in other countries (mainly the middle east) - almost daily. For example, just the other day, about 30 people were blown to bits and hundreds injured over in Afghanistan, yet, you do not even hear about it on the news. People make a very big deal about this because its "on American soil". So? What makes it so different? That we are supposed to be safe in our homeland? You'd like to hope so, but it really doesn't. Since the 70's we've learned pretty quickly that terrorism can happen anywhere at any time in this modern world, even with law enforcement doing there best to stop such a thing. Granted, we have had a lot of time since then to prepare for things like this, but it's hard to stop the unpredictable.

Yes, this was definitely a tragedy, but like SAS said above, most of this is drama, and I'm sure it will be used for political objectives in the near future, just like the previous massacres in Colorado and Connecticut. Personally, I think that people should simply be thankful that not many others were injured - almost 24000 people were participating in that race. It's most likely a miracle that only 3 died out of the hundreds injured - that being said, it would be better if none had died, but it definitely could have gone a lot worse.

Religion has been used that way too.

it was actually iraq, but whatever. What makes it different is that bombings are not expected to happen in first world countries, while they are in the middle east.
Edited by SAS on Apr 16, 2013 at 07:37 PM

Yes, but my point was to say that it should not be unexpected. Since the Munich Olympics we've had a ton of terrorist plots, domestic and foreign in multiple first world countries. Sure, its a tragedy, and I feel very bad for what happened to those people, but some people make it over dramatic.